Hey guys! This week was busy and tiring, but good!
On Tuesday, we went to MLC in Roseburg. I miss Roseburg! The Medford STLs drove us so I napped the entire ride both ways. It was nice. MLC was good. We talked about we can help the missionaries increase their spirituality. Overall, it was a really good discussion! We had a dinner with a fun member family.
Wednesday was my first adventure biking in the rain. It wasn’t bad! We visited with some older members. They were funny! We had an awesome lesson with a less engaged member! She was so sweet and you could see she had a genuine interest in coming back! We then helped a less engaged member who was trying to figure out a website for her work. We came home and ate dinner, then we got to drive to our last lesson because they were so far and we had exchanges right after that. We exchanged with the Sisters in Gold Hill, Sister Bean and Sister Blake. Sister Blake came with me back to Medford 3rd. I was Sister Blakes STL when she first came to the mission in Roseburg.
Our exchange was fun on Thursday but I might have killed Sister Blake on the bike. We had a busy day, and we biked pretty far. We started out at the top of our area and visited a ton of people there. Then we had a lesson at the bottom of our area, so we biked down there. We stopped at Wendys for a frosty and fries to refuel. We were able to visit with some older members. We exchanged back, then Sister Eubanks and I headed to Young Womans. We carved pumpkins with the youth and got to talk to all of them. It was fun! What wasn’t fun was trying to bike home with a pumpkin in one hand.
We had a long missionwide broadcast with Elder McKay of the Seventy. He talked a lot about Joseph Smith and it was a cool little broadcast. We were finally able to meet one of our friends! We did some tracting and actually found a really cool guy that was looking for a church! We had been knocking for like 30 minutes and no one was answering so we were going to leave. But we felt like we should keep going for a few more minutes. And I’m glad we did! Its cool how the Spirit guides us to those that are prepared to hear the gospel!! We should always listen to the Spirit! We had a lesson with a cool newer member. She’s a single mom of 3. She told us her story and how she couldn’t deny the gospel. It was awesome!
Saturday was so fun! We had an awesome lesson with a guy named Jeremy. It was a pass off lesson with some elders in the Medford zone. We rode down to the park for it, then back to the church to help set up for the ward trunk or treat. Our building has 3 wards in it so they did a massive combined trunk or treat and it was so fun! We got to see all the other missionaries from thise wards and just have a blast. There was so much good food and stuff. We came home and contacted a bunch of people!
Sunday was good! We went to church and our friend Jeremy came! We had a couple different lessons and dinner with an adorable member family! They are such good cooks!
Today, we are carving pumpkins with everyone! It should be lots of fun!
We have interviews and zone conference this week! Zone conference is on Halloween so that’ll be fun! We are also going on exchanges and I’m going into a spanish area, so that’ll be a blast!
I love you all! I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Sister O’Barr
